myxedema
myxoedema BrE

The term myxedema has been applied to multiple medical conditions.

Rarely, people develop a skin condition known as pretibial myxedema.

Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of hypothyroidism (or myxedema).

Someone suffering from untreated myxedema can become comatose and die.

Myxedema coma, the most severe form of hypothyroidism, is rare.

It is associated with such conditions as lymphedema, lipedema, and myxedema.

The removal of the thyroid might result in severe myxedema, but the patient at least remains alive.

Myxedema, in the first sense, is a form of hypothyroidism developing in the older child or adult.

Patients with myxedema are unenthusiastic, cold intolerant, and frequently overweight.

Myxedema may also be treated with synthetic or desiccated natural thyroid hormones.

Primary symptoms of myxedema coma are altered mental status and hypothermia.

Clinical features of myxedema are characterized by a slowing of physical and mental activity.

The "myxedema" part of the name simply refers to the non-pitting edema common to hypothyroidism.

Pretibial myxedema seen in Graves' disease is also known as Osler's sign.

Myxedema coma is a medical emergency that occurs when the body's level of thyroid hormones becomes extremely low.

Myxedema coma can result in death.

Myxedema coma can respond well to thyroid hormone medicine and treatment in an intensive care unit.

Myxedema coma is a state of decompensated hypothyroidism.

In 1891, he introduced the successful treatment of myxedema, with injections of sheep thyroid extract.

Liothyronine is a form of thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism and myxedema coma.

Thyroid problems, such as hypothyroidism, myxedema coma, or hyperthyroidism.

Thyroid hormones are taken by mouth (orally) except in unusual cases, such as myxedema coma.

Peau d'orange can be also seen with myxedema of Grave's disease, where the term refers more to the texture than the color.

Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune condition, is the most common cause of myxedema in the United States.

Pretibial myxedema (lumpy, reddish skin of the lower legs)

Anyway, now that you're having treatment for the myxoedema, the risk of dementia has all but gone.

I'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid.

I have seen some spectacular cures in myxoedema, but none dramatic as that keeshound.

A few years later, in 1888, this condition would be named myxoedema by W. M. Ord.

Chronic psychoses can supervene many years later, based on myxoedema, hypoglycaemia or Addisonian crisis.

He made a number of contributions to neurology and medicine in general for example highlighting the fact that hyperthyroidism may terminate in myxoedema.

On Myxoedema, a term proposed to be applied to an essential condition in the cretinoid infection observed in middle aged women.

Graves' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism; hyposecretion causes cretinism in infants and myxoedema in adults.

Distinctive clinical features of Graves' disease include the presence of ophthalmopathy, diffuse goitre and pretibial myxoedema.

It was considered as the result of a disfunction of the thyroid gland, similar to the human pathological condition known as myxoedema infantilis.

"It's myxoedema."

Report of a committee of the Clinical Society of London nominated December 14, 1883, to investigate the subject of myxoedema.

The Kocher-Debré-Semelaigne syndrome is a (myopathy) of hypothyroidism in infancy or childhood characterised by lower extremity or generalized muscular hypertrophy, myxoedema, short stature and cretinism.

As you know myxoedema is a form of mental and physical slowness caused by an underactive thyroid gland and it is indeed one of the many causes of dementia.

Gull is remembered for a number of significant contributions to medical science, including advancing the understanding of myxoedema, Bright's disease, paraplegia and anorexia nervosa (for which he first established the name).

In 1873, Sir William Gull delivered a second seminal paper alongside his Anorexia nervosa work in which he demonstrated that the cause of myxoedema is atrophy of the thyroid gland.

The apathy of patients with myxoedema was associated with failure of the thyroid gland and was overcome by treatment with the whole gland or one of its active principles (see Chapter 5).

In endocrinology, medical emergencies include diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state, hypoglycemic coma, acute adrenocortical insufficiency, phaeochromocytoma crisis, hypercalcemic crisis, thyroid storm, myxoedema coma and pituitary apoplexy.

Pretibial myxedema (myxoedema (UK), aka thyroid dermopathy ) is an infiltrative dermopathy, resulting as a rare complication of Graves' disease, with an incidence rate of about 1-5% in patients.